Movies Favourite War Film of the 60s/70s

Favourite War Film of the 60s/70s

  • Lawrence of Arabia

  • The Great Escape

  • Spartacus

  • The Dirty Dozen

  • Doctor Zhivago

  • The Longest Day

  • Apocalypse Now

  • The Deer Hunter

  • Patton

  • Cross of Iron

  • Barry Lyndon

  • MASH

  • A Bridge Too Far

  • Tora! Tora! Tora!

  • Johnny's Got His Gun

  • Kelly's Heroes

  • Dr Strangelove

  • Battle of Algiers

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Apocalypse Now

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Synopsis: A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.
 
Cross of iron and apocalypse now.

apocalypse is more rewatchable but I enjoy the fact that they are both bleak and brutal as war movies should be. The other movies feel like buddies adventures.

PS: zhivago is good too.
 
CrimsomSky said:
Cross of iron and apocalypse now.

apocalypse is more rewatchable but I enjoy the fact that they are both bleak and brutal as war movies should be. The other movies feel like buddies adventures.

PS: zhivago is good too.
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I've never seen cross of iron but I like James Coburn and @Zer has mentioned it several times as one of his favs

I'll check it out today or tomorrow for memorials day
 
I can't pick just one! and where's the boys in company c?
 
Voted for Patton, because George C. Scott's performance is one for the ages, but The Dirty Dozen, Apocalypse Now and A Bridge Too Far are all GOAT-level:cool:
 
Apocolypse Now is probably one of the best movies, war or not.
 
Voted for Lawrence of Arabia, but Cross of Iron is a great film. I like a lot of the films on the list

Another one that I would recommend, one of the best films I've ever seen, is Army of Shadows. It's about the French resistance in WW2. It was made by one of the great French directors, Jean-Pierre Melville, who before his career in movies served as part of the French resistance

Another one, which is 1959 so I'm cheating a bit here, is Fires on the Plain. A classic Japanese WW2 film directed by Kon Ichikawa about the dying days of the Japanese war effort

And finally Ivan's Childhood, by legendary Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky, about a young Russian boy who is determined to fight after losing his parents to the Nazis
 
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Zer said:
Voted for Lawrence of Arabia, but Cross of Iron is a great film. I like a lot of the films on the list

Another one that I would recommend, one of the best films I've ever seen, is Army of Shadows. It's about the French resistance in WW2. It was made by one of the great French directors, Jean-Pierre Melville, who before his career in movies served as part of the French resistance

Another one, which is 1959 so I'm cheating a bit here, is Fires on the Plain. A classic Japanese WW2 film directed by Kon Ichikawa about the dying days of the Japanese war effort

And finally Ivan's Childhood, by legendary Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky, about a young Russian boy who is determined to fight after losing his parents to the Nazis
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I still need to watch Ran
 
Tbs or turner network television would marathon these WW2 movies throughout memorial day weekend (I would watch after the baseball tournaments).

Battle of the Bulge
Midway
Tora Tora Tora
Kelly's Heroes
A Bridge Too Far
Battle of Britain
The Longest Day
Dirty Dozen
Hell in the Pacific
Bridge at Remagen
Anzio
King Rat
The Devil's Brigade
Tobruk
Castle Keep
Donovan's Reef


Of these, maybe The Longest Day, Midway, or Kelly's Heroes.
 
I don't know, I have a thing for Spartacus. Kubrick FTW. Olivier FTW. Laughton FTW.
 
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